Definition of 'bare'

Verb

1. lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"
2. make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare"
      Synonyms: publicize publicise air
3. lay bare; "denude a forest"
      Synonyms: denude denudate strip

Adjective

1. completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"
      Synonyms: au naturel naked nude
2. lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
      Synonyms: scanty spare
3. not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade"
      Synonyms: unsheathed
      Antonyms: sheathed
4. lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet"
      Antonyms: covered
5. just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"
      Synonyms: marginal
6. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth"
      Synonyms: mere simple
7. lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture"
      Synonyms: unfinished
8. providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
      Synonyms: barren bleak desolate stark
9. having everything extraneous removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"
      Synonyms: stripped
10. lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
       Synonyms: plain spare unembellished unornamented

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